Five Items You Should Ditch to Reduce Microplastics, According to Experts
Lowering plastic consumption is vital for our personal health, and experts have identified items you can eliminate.
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Gardener shares free planting hack using simple household items: 'No more struggling through cold spring nights'
"Some might see a plastic egg carton, but I see a mini greenhouse to start seeds in." Gardener shares free planting hack ...
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Black Plastic Kitchen Utensils Might Be Toxic. Here's What You Can Use Instead
Fact checked by Jillian Dara There’s yet more evidence that exposure to plastics can be harmful to health. Recent research ...
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The common supermarket items with an unexpected environmental cost
Cleaning product company Ecover will 'totally rethink plastic' after warning that just seven per cent of plastic bottles made ...
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Black plastic kitchen tools could contain toxic chemicals. Here’s what to do.
A recent peer-reviewed analysis of black plastic household products, including food trays and kitchen utensils, found that 17 out of 20 items tested (or 85 percent) contained brominated and ...
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Are your plastic kitchen utensils toxic? An alarming study gets an update.
An alarming study that had Americans tossing out their black plastic kitchen utensils, toys and to-go packages earlier this month overstated the concern, the researchers admit. But they still say ...
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The Study That Called Out Black Plastic Utensils Had a Major Math Error
The study highlighted that flame retardants used in plastic electronics may, in some instances, be recycled into household items. "Companies continue to use toxic flame retardants in plastic ...
Journal that published faulty black plastic study removed from science index
The publisher of a high-profile, now-corrected study on black plastics has been removed from a critical index of academic ...
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Recycled black plastic can contain flame retardants, viral study found. That's still true — but their math was off
Liu and her colleagues chose 203 household products to test for flame-retardant contamination based on how often those items were made of black plastic — the most common color used in ...
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How to deal with all the black plastic in your kitchen
A recent peer-reviewed analysis of black plastic household products, including food trays and kitchen utensils, found that 17 out of 20 items tested (or 85 percent) contained brominated and ...
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Are your plastic kitchen utensils toxic? An alarming study gets an update.
A December 2024 study in the journal Chemosphere incorrectly calculated the amount of potentially toxic flame retardants that could be present in some black plastic household products such as ...